Amiga 3000UX, X, OpenLook, Motif, Color, A2410, Etc. (somewhat long)

[James A. Crotinger]

david at kessner.denver.co.us (David Kessner) writes:
You just don't have a fast enough machine 8-). From an xterm on my Sparc 1:

    gandalf:jac(make-3.59)> ls -l ChangeLog
    -rw-r--r--  1 jac        164432 Nov 28 19:53 ChangeLog
    gandalf:jac(make-3.59)> time cat ChangeLog
    [164432 characters deleted 8-)]
    0.030u 0.160s 0:15.88 1.1% 0+82k 0+0io 0pf+0w
                  ^^^^^^^ wall clock time

While this is not quite as quick as your 386's console, I think it is
quite acceptable.  And if I cat the same file from a disk on a remote
machine (where xterm is running on the remote machine, a 490), I get

    0.010u 0.120s 0:09.32 1.3% 0+55k 0+2io 0pf+0w

So X on a Sparc can display characters quite quickly.
[And this is Sun's xnews running on a machine with 8 bit graphics
but without Sun's GX board. The figures would almost certainly be
faster running MIT's X server]

[From psterm, which does the rendering in NeWS (PostScript), the time
was 16.22 seconds to cat the local file with a locally running psterm,
and 14.87 seconds to cat the remote file with a remotely running
psterm]

[BTW, I don't think I've ever seen anything display characters as
quickly as the old AMIX windowing system. Man, it blasted them
characters up there!]

  Jim

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